06/29/1879
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"The great body of the people of all parties want free and fair elections."
"The supervision of the elections will be reduced to a mere inspection, without authority on the part of the supervisors to do any act whatever to make the election a fair one."
"It is confidently believed that no sound argument can be made in support of the constitutionality of national regulation of Senatorial elections."
"The United States election laws are not necessary, an ample reply is furnished by the history of their origin and of their results."